Tropical cyclones, the more general term for hurricanes globally, have been setting records in the last few years. In a warming climate, the most intense of these storms are getting stronger, and some of the strongest on record have been seen in the last decade. Defined by wind speed, last year’s Hurricane Irma was the strongest storm on record in

The first few weeks of the hurricane season in the eastern Pacific Ocean were so quiet, you could hear crickets. Then on July 2, what would become a flurry of tropical storms began and followed one right after the other like the cars of a train. Tropical Storm Celia and Hurricane Darby, the third and fourth storms of the season, are churning off t

Fiji is more known for tropical beaches and expensive bottled water than tropical cyclones. Yet Cyclone Winston is bearing down on the main island, and it could go down in the record books. The strength of Winston coupled with its quirky track aimed at the heart of Fiji could make this one of the most destructive storms on record to hit the island

This year’s hurricane season in the Arabian Sea was already one for the books, thanks to just one storm, Cyclone Chapala, which was one of the strongest ever recorded there and became the first hurricane-strength storm known to hit Yemen. Now the arid country has had an unprecedented back-to-back strike, as Cyclone Megh made landfall near the

Cyclone Chapala is now in the books as the first hurricane on record to hit the Arabian Peninsula country of Yemen. As forecasters feared, the storm’s torrential rains are wreaking havoc on the arid landscape, inundating coastal cities, destroying homes and leaving dozens missing, according to news reports. The scale of the flooding and the

Satellites peering down on the Arabian Sea are watching as a hurricane bears down on the coast of Yemen, something never before recorded. Cyclone Chapala has reached rare heights for a storm in that region of the world, topping out as the second strongest storm in the Arabian Sea by wind speed, and the strongest by a measure that looks at its

New research shows that hurricane activity picked up along the American East Coast after 1400, following spikes in nearby sea surface temperatures of up to 3.5°F, before waning again late in the 1600s. Researchers who peered into mud to chronicle this and an earlier spike in hurricanes say such storms could become more common again as greenhouse ga